people love to trot out the old chestnut of "we did the best we could with the information we had" around covid vaccines.
the more extreme examples claim "you could not have known, you just got lucky!"
both are risibly false.
people ask: "how did you know not to take or trust the covid jab?"
here's how: (and how to spot similar in the future)
1. you could tell from the pfizer trial design that the "covid vaccine" was not assessed as a vaccine. it was never tested on spread, infection, transmission, or sterilizing immunity. at best, the trials could have shown it to be a therapeutic. even that was deeply /sus and the sudden enrollment in sites in argentina run by a doctor with a history of fraud did not reassure. neither did the all cause deaths data in the study.
2. the messaging about the covid vaccine "this will be a dead end for the virus! if you get the vaccine, you will not get covid, you will not spread covid" was obviously not supported by any clinical data.
it was a made up claim to make getting the shot look like a moral duty. it was marketing, not science.
3. this marketing was NEVER plausible. vaccines are not magic, they simply train your immune system to recognize a pathogen. if you do not develop durable immunity from exposure to live disease, a vaccine is not going to impart it either.
it's amazing that people are still out peddling this obviously inaccurate data. rig your studies all you like, covid vaccines did not reduce cases, deaths, or hospitalization. they made them worse.
all these slanted studies fly in the face of the overall data. for this to be correct, covid vaccines would need to reduce hospitalization risk by ~92%. that's incredibly high efficacy. efficacy like that would create a massive, unmistakable signal in the data with populations that were 70-99% vaccinated. the curves would bend so hard that anyone could eyeball it. it would be air horn during vatican vespers unmissable.
but it's not there. not only is this signal absent, it's inverted.
let's take some obvious examples in the high risk high vaxxed populations:
i chose the top states in the US by vaxx rate and looked at 65+, the high risk high vaxx group.
95% vaxxed. hospitalizations and all cause mortality both rose post vaccine despite a less dangerous covid variant. if this were 92% effective, the 5% unvaxxed would have had to see their hospitalization rates rise 18 fold just to stay flat. and we KNOW that did not happen.
this signal is not isolated. we see the same thing in maine, rhode island, massachusetts, connecticut. this is obviously the modal outcome.
more here:
in fact, the highest vaxxed states in the US saw the worst rises in hospitalization rates while the lowest saw far less. vaxx is, at a societal level, associated with more, not less hospitalization and death.
one could, i suppose, try to argue causality, but the timing is highly provocative and again, if efficacy is 90% signal should be strongly opposite to that which is observed.
this same was true of all search engines i tried. it's not just google.
i suspect this is an artifact of something deeper like "media refusing to use these words" or some more generalized manipulation.
literally in the time i was doing the analysis, luxxle caught up perhaps because this issue is going viral on X.
but the others had not as of this writing.
i suspect this may have more to do with this than with something google specific:
even once this avalanche of absurdist headlines was replaced by ones that bore at least marginally more resemblance to reality, the words “assassination attempt on” appear basically nowhere.